Researcher’s Note: California has always been an experimental
state for the Liberals and their stealth laws. Example: You can have all your
guns but we regulate the hell out of your ammo. Nope can’t use ammo with lead,
bad for the environment! They know if they can get a law passed in California
it will eventually trickle into the other states, and already has. Their attack
on our Second Amendment is a high priority on their agenda list. Because of our
Second Amendment we are still free. Other countries have already been defeated
by their agenda, and yes their agenda is worldwide. This is not about Gun
Control this is about your freedom! This is the result of Gun Control in
Australia.

On Tuesday, Justice Clarence Thomas issued
a blistering rebuke to his Supreme Court colleagues, as well as to lower
courts that have refused to treat the Second Amendment with the same level of
honor as other rights enshrined in the Constitution.

Thomas wrote a dissent against his Supreme Court
colleagues refusing to take up the case of California’s 10-day waiting period
for buying a gun. Under California law, gun buyers — even those who already own
guns — must wait ten days before picking up their guns from the store. It
doesn’t matter whether the background checks have already been run; purchasers
must wait. The idea is that these potential buyers will have second thoughts
about owning a gun, and decide not to pick up the gun after all.

The state of California provided little or no evidence to
show that such cooling-off periods impact in any way either suicide rates or
crime rates, particularly as applied to those who already have gun licenses and
concealed carry permits. That didn’t stop the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
from upholding the law on the basis that the purchaser “may want to purchase a
larger capacity weapon that will do more damage when fired into a crowd.” That
contention was entirely speculative, of course.

But this is the lowest possible standard for
constitutional review. As Thomas points out, the Heller case says Courts
may not “decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth
insisting upon.” The Court explicitly shot down “rational-basis scrutiny.”

All of this, wrote Thomas “is symptomatic of the lower
courts’ general failure to afford the Second Amendment the respect due an
enumerated constitutional right. If a lower court treated another right so
cavalierly, I have little doubt that this Court would intervene. But as
evidenced by our continued inaction in this area, the Second Amendment is a
disfavored right in this Court.”

As Thomas points out, if a state placed a ten-day waiting
period on abortions, the Supreme Court would be quick to step in with a review.
The Ninth Circuit even struck down a county’s 50-day waiting period for
nude-dancing licenses. And the Ninth Circuit struck down traditional marriage
laws for supposed lack of evidence, despite thousands of years of human
history. Thomas concludes, “The right to keep and bear arms is apparently this
Court’s constitutional orphan.”

Thomas, of course, is right. And the judiciary’s
willingness to stand by and watch the Second Amendment dismantled piecemeal is
an abdication of Constitutional duty on a grand scale.

Despite its famous motto of "Don't be evil,"
there are some in the dark corners of the Web who speculate that Google's real
plan is to take over the world. Google Watch features headlines such as "Google
Must be Stopped," and "Is Google God?" The site Google World Domination even has a countdown
clock, which indicates that the Skynet-type moment when we will all be slaves
to the mighty Google algorithms will take place in roughly 6 years and 192
days. (Interestingly, the site, which includes a creepy video, features ads by Google,
demonstrating how insidious that plot actually might be).

With that type of speculation out there, it's news any
time a Google
executive talks about running the world.

He didn't say that Google wanted to run the world. But he
did offer an interesting suggestion to a crowd of power players in Washington
about the best way to do it: Just like Google.

"It is possible to build a culture around
innovation. It is possible to build a culture around leadership. And it is
possible to build a culture around optimism. Google is an example, but
by no means the only example, of a culture that can be built based on
relatively scalable principles. We could run our country this way. We could run
the world this way."

It was meant to be an inspiring moment ...

...as Schmidt wrapped up a speech to the Economic Club of
Washington during a luncheon in a packed ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Click here for an
audio clip of Schmidt's comments.

The appearance was a homecoming of sorts for Schmidt.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the club's president and a former President Clinton
advisor, noted that Schmidt was born a few blocks away from the hotel at George
Washington University Hospital, and grew up in the Northern Virginia suburbs.
His mother, Ellie Schmidt, was in the audience.

Schmidt talked about cloud computing and the promise of
mobile devices, all the while plugging some Google products. For the
journalists sitting in the back of the room (no lunch of seared beef filet with
Cabernet reduction and lemon and thyme glazed salmon filet for us), Schmidt did
commisserate about the state of the newspaper industry.

"We all care a lot about this. Newspaper demand has
never been higher. The problem is revenues have never been lower. So people are
reading the newspaper they're just not reading it in a way where the newspapers
can make money on it. This is a shared problem. We have to solve it. There's no
obviously good solution right now."

One possible solution some have have floated has been for
Google to use a sliver of its approximately $175 billion market cap to buy a
newspaper, such as the New York Times, but Schmidt recently downplayed
such an idea.

Like many Silicon Valley executives who come to
Washington, Schmidt spoke broadly about technology (his speech was titled,
"The Future of the Internet: Engine for Economic Growth") and did his
best not to make any major news. He didn't even come close to mentioning Yahoo,
let alone comment on the possibility of Google cutting a deal to place ads next
to Yahoo's search results.

Schmidt opted to talk less about the nuts-and-bolts of
one of the world's largest companies than the ways in which technology can
shape the future. Noting that the United States was founded "by people who
saw a better model," Schmidt concluded his speech with this call to arms:

"So let's be revolutionaries. Let's take this
opportunity, this huge change that is before us, with technlology, and let's
change businesses, communications and the way we interact, on some new
principles that reflect the very best of America."

Those sound like the words of someone who might be
considering a run for higher office one day, assuming Google isn't running
everything by then.

After 11
years, Muckety has shut down. We've simply run out of dough. (In another era,
we could have underwritten our costs through advertising, but sad to say,
Facebook and Google
have become too greedy over the past decade. Not sour grapes; just the current
reality.) Tx to all.

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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."- St. Augustine

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows." -

William James

"This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men." --Ronald Reagan

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."-- Edward Abbey

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."John Stuart Mill

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~~George Washington

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Conservatives are enemies of the government. Liberals are enemies of the nation because they are not enemies of the government."Aristotle the Hun

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"Albert Einstein

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ANON

"That government is best which governs least."Thomas Paine

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INTEGRITY: The highest courage is to dare to be ourself in the face of adversity. Choosing ethics over convenience and truth over popularity means there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven for good intentions yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.~ C. S. Lewis

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